Famous Pianists

• Amos, Tori

  Pop virtuoso piano player and singer

• Basie, Count

  Swing bandleader and performer of "One O'Clock Jump"

• Borge, Victor

  The witty pianist who created Comedy in Music

• Brahms, Johannes

  German composer of "Brahms' Lullaby" ("Wiegenlied")

• Brubeck, David

  The jazz pianist who did the song "Take Five"

• Carlos, Wendy

  Synthesizer performer of the album Switched-On Bach

• Chopin, Frederic

   Romantic Polish-French piano composer of piano etudes and so on

• Copland, Aaron

  American composer who wrote Appalachian Spring

• Ellington, Duke

  Performer of "Take the 'A' Train"

• Evans, Bill

  One of the all-time greats on jazz piano

• Garner, Erroll

  The guy who wrote the song "Misty"

• Glasper, Robert

  The jazz pianist who did 'Black Radio'

• Guaraldi, Vince

  The jazz pianist who wrote the music for Charlie Brown

• Hines, Earl

  Influential jazz pianist

• Legend, John

  Singer of the 2005 hit "Ordinary People"

• Liberace

  The glitzy and popular pianist of the 1950s

• Liszt, Franz

  Romantic composer known for his Hungarian Rhapsodies

• Monk, Thelonious

  Influential and idiosyncratic bop jazz pianist

• Moore, Dudley

  Oscar-nominated star of Arthur

• Peterson, Oscar

  Canadian jazz piano virtuoso

• Rachmaninoff, Sergei

  The Russian pianist who composed Prelude in C-sharp Minor

• Schumann, Clara

   The pianist wife of composer Robert Schumann

• Strayhorn, Billy

  Composer of "Take the 'A' Train"

• Tatum, Art

  Jazz's too-many-notes piano wizard of the 1930s and '40s

• Tyner, McCoy

  The piano player in The John Coltrane Quartet in the 1960s

• Waller, Fats

  The joyous piano player who wrote the song "Ain't Misbehavin'"

• Wilson, Dooley

  Sam in the movie Casablanca

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